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PERFUMES AND OILS IN BIBLE TIMES

FOR GOD/ THE LORD/ KINGS:

Exodus 30:23-37 * "Take the following fine spices... liquid myrrh… fragrant cinnamon…

fragrant cane… cassia-- and a hin of olive oil. Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a

fragrant blend, and the work of a perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil [for Aaron

and his sons/ priest]. Then use it [also] to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the

Testimony… Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts it on anyone other than a

priest must be cut off from his people.'"….Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take fragrant

spices-- gum resin, onycha and galbanum-- and pure frankincense… and make a

fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.

Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting,

where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you. Do not make any incense with

this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the LORD”. *The perfumes and oils

created by Beit Avraham are not the same as mentioned in this passage.

John 12:1-8 “Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany… Then they

made a supper there for Him. And Martha served….

Then [her sister] Mary took a pound of ointment of

pure spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet

of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled

with the odour of the ointment…” .

Daniel 2:46 “Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel

and paid him honour and ordered that an offering and incense be

presented to him”.

See also Job 27:3 and Gen 2:7

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FOR MEN:

Song of Songs 3:6 “Who is this [man] coming up from the

desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and

incense made from all the spices of the merchant?”

FOR WOMEN:

Song of Songs 5:5 “I rose up to open to my Beloved; and

my hands dripped [with] myrrh, and my fingers flowing

[with] myrrh on the handles of the bolt”.

Esther 2:12 “Before a girl's turn came to go in to King

Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty

treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics”.

OTHER:

Proverbs 27:9 “Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart…”

Ecclesiastes 9:8 “Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment”.

2 Chronicles 16:14 ”And they buried him in his own tomb… and laid him in the bed which was filled with

sweet odours and kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers art…”.

Luke 23:55-56 “The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb

and how his body was laid in it. Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they

rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment. “

Luke 24:1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had

prepared and went to the tomb”.

Song of Songs 1:3 “Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;

your name is like perfume poured out…”.

Will Setz’s Beit Avraham’ Myrrh anointing oil was part of a line of

perfumes and oils that were hand produced. They contained

materials which were used in Biblical times, made according to the

tradition of the late Second Temple Period.